WannaBeGnome

WannaBeGnome

Today, i was browsing ebay, and found this http://www.ebay.com/itm/3-Axis-CNC-Stepper-Motor-Driver-Board-TB6560-0-5A-2-5A-/360688392533?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item53fab41955, it can drive 3 stepers, up to 2,5A, and it is pretty cheap. It can hold motors, that are recommended to use with machine i posted before. ( http://www.buildyourcnc.com/item/electronicsAndMotors-nema24-425ozin ). Do you think, is it a good idea to use combination of these with arduino? Or connect just driver board do PC via Serial Port?

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Thanks for all answers and patience with my dumb questions Just one last . If i would like to find equivalent to this motor http://www.buildyourcnc.com/Documents/PN.SM60HT86-2008BF-U%20(inhouse%20PN.60BYGH303-13)%20(1).pdf , should i be looking for motor with holding torque 3,1 N.m?

One needs to be careful here. If you use USB to send one byte at a time it can be very slow - it's not what it's designed for - but some old (pre usb) PC control programs may have controlled external devices one byte at a time, (especially with the parallel port) and those old programs don't work properly with a USB-serial device.

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One needs to be careful here. If you use USB to send one byte at a time it can be very slow - it's not what it's designed for - but some old (pre usb) PC control programs may have controlled external devices one byte at a time, (especially with the parallel port) and those old programs don't work properly with a USB-serial device.